Childhood Crush Stories

People Reveal The Dorkiest Things They've Ever Done To Woo A Crush

When you're a kid, expressing your love for someone can be difficult. You don't have much experience and no one's really given you much instruction on which to base your courtship rituals. That's why things like throwing an eraser at a girl's head or doing a weird dance for her at recess seem like the height of romance when you're a kid.

And although we eventually learn more complex and subtle ways of expressing our affection, there is something very sweet about the sincerity of youthful expressions of love. We're not saying you should bring eraser-throwing back into heavy rotation in your seduction repertoire, but perhaps there is something valuable in the sentiment behind such innocent and sincere expressions of young love.

It's easy to feel jaded when you're swiping through girl after girl on Tinder. So if you're really looking to find someone, maybe it's time to try to reconnect with the uncontaminated feelings you had about love as a kid.

Stories about childhood crushes are also usually pretty funny too, as evidenced by some of the tales told in this Reddit thread of the cringiest things people have done to woo their crush. Seriously, some of these people sound like real-life Napolean Dynamites. Check out some of the best anecdotes below and reminisce on a time when love was a bit simpler...